Improved apparatus for distilling and purifying- spirits



,DANIEL WooDARD, oF'sPRlNGFIELD, TENNESSEE.` Leners Patent No. 89,961, dead May 11,1869.

n vxovs APPARATUS ron DISTIILLING AND PURIFYING SPIRITS.`

The `Schedule referred to in these Letters Paxtent and making part of the ame.

To all whom 'it may concern: l

Be it knownthatl, DANIEL WooDAnD, of Springfield, in the oounty'of Robertson, and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and improved Distilling-Apparatus; and I do hereby declare thatl the following is a full, clear, and `exact description thereof, which will enableothers skilled in the `art to make and use the same, reference being hadv to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Thisinvention relates to improvements iu distillingapparatus designed to provide an attachment foi-.the 'boilers or stills, as `commonly arranged, whereby the vapor maybeiltered through charcoah'iustead of exposing the whole body of the liquor to the charcoal, as is now commonly'practised. Also an arrangement to `facilitate the charging of the apparatus with coal, and

chamber upon the topof the vessel B, 'having a casing,`

D, ofsemicircular form at the top, and provided with a hopper, E; i

` F' is a cylinder, arranged in the saidrchamber, with an opening, vwhich may be turned up to coincide withthe mouth of the hopper, for the reception of coal 1' therefrom. 4 y

After' the coal is received iuto`the cylinder, thellat ter is turned around `to discharge the coal into the chamber, and in this position the cylinder F closes the passage through the hopper. Grl represents a passage, closed by a valve opening `into the cylinder B; and

H, a rake, for scraping the coal through the passage into the cylinder when the valveis lifted,

y I represents a rake, arranged 'in the cylinder B, for adjusting the coal therein, and for scraping it to the tube K, for passing it into the lower cylinder A, when the valve L is raised; and

M is a rake, 'arranged in the cylinder A, for a like purpose, the coal being passed through the passage N to be discharged.- Y

v O represents a pipe, leading from the boiler orstill, r

forconveying the vapor therefrom through the charcoal. It runs nearly the length of the cylinder A, along-the bottom thereof under thecharcoal, and is finely perforated, to'distribute the vapor throughout the body ofthe coal.

VI represents another similar pipe, through which the vapor again passes, and is similarly distributed in the cylinder B. From the latter it is conveyed to the condenser in any suitable manner. v'

By this arrangement the action of the charcoal is niuch more direct and powerful upon the vapor, and I am enabled to accomplish better results with less coal than can be done by the old method.

My improved arrangement for charging the cylinder is also very economical in respect of time and labor.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as-new, and desire to secure by Letters y l The cylinders A Bland perforated pipes O P, ar- .ranged in combination with a still, or boiler and condensensubstantially as specified.

2. The case D, hopper E, cylinder F, and rake H, combined with the cylinder B, substantially as specilied.

3. The cylinders B and G, provided with the passages G, K, and N, and their valves, and the rakes I and M, all substantially as specified.

DANIEL WOODARD. Witnesses:

BEN. HUNT,

- D. W. O. RANDOLPH. 

